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of his text The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation. Justin Gonzalez discusses "The C...
Mission In this chapter, Justin Gonzalez elaborates further on the history of the early Christian church, as recorded in Acts, re...
5, "First Conflicts with the State," begins by pointing out that early Christianity had a violent beginning.i The first section ex...
Pliny and Trajan This is the first section of chapter 6, "Persecution in the Second Century," and it deals with the actions of Pl...
Lofty Criticism As mentioned in the previous chapter, due to the Roman policy towards Christianity throughout the second century ...
this chapter is on describing the variety of backgrounds and experience that informed early interpretations of the gospel message....
chapter by explaining that the writings of the apologists were all in response to specific topics, such as issues dealing with per...
of Early Christians Gonzalez begins this chapter by pointing out that surviving documents by the leaders of the church or those d...
Gonzalezs text, "The Great Persecution and the Final Victory," focuses on Christian persecution under Diocletian, which is charact...
Constantine, Chapter 13 From Rome to Constantinople: This section describes the rule of Constantine from his initial victory and ...
(Robinson, 2011). These are all elements within each religion. At the same time the textual elements are often interpreted by va...
at that time. It was always in turmoil with one battle or one war or another being waged. The Greco-Roman world consists of the al...
covenant between God and humanity, a covenant that was the fulfillment of prophecy but also one that included all of humanity. T...
most ancient religions. Monotheistic, Jews believe that creation is the work of a "single, all-knowing divinity" and that everythi...
only in extremes. Right versus left; rich versus poor; conservative versus liberal: all these factions are at each others throats ...
of the day. There were Kings and Christians and those who were attached to Enlightenment ideals. In essence, Machiavellis world wa...
impossible to really illustrate the origins of the two as they involve many historical and religious ideals. For example, in relat...
and glorification. By a calling a person essentially is pulled out of a world "of sin and into union with Christ. This gives him a...
It might be contended that the development...
is only one truth and it is this truth that all Christian churches should be promoting. Citing another author, Wells reports that ...
p. 12). It was not until William had to seek new employment because his employer died that he began to take an interest in religi...
weighing over 2.5 tons, this structure covers over 13 acres and so carefully surveyed so accurately that it aligns perfectly with...
analyzed the chemical composition of the cement through the use of an electron microscope. One of the scientists on the team descr...
very important fact when considering the relationship between the classics and Christianity in Miltons poem by stating the followi...
into the premier representation of Christianity, Jesus was to occupy a dual role within the religious world. He did not eschew hi...
To understand however how different Christian groups understand evolution, it is important to understand the two different formula...
of art etched into wood tablets, metal and on engraving plates. The religious overtones were highly pronounced and most of the wor...
evil, was literally personified in the body of evil curses, evil spirits and superstitions. Now, of course, for the most part peop...
They believe that there is only one acceptable religion and that is theirs. Things are beginning to change in modern society, how...
this might be. What is most astonishing is that in the past those Christian states did not provide the best of possible climates f...